Epic is overused. Heavily, heavily overused. The internet has corrupted a perfectly good word, and now it’s used almost as badly as lol. Anything that’s vaguely humorous gets slapped with the label without any appreciation for what it truly is. You know what’s epic? Hundreds of armed and trained men, slaughtering each other ruthlessly on [...]
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Model Daul Kim Suicide; Critics Pan “New Moon;†“RuPaul’s Drag Race†Is Back; And More Mornin’ Crunch Crumbs
November 20th, 2009 |
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- RuPaul has returned for a second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, premiering on Logo in February. Have you met the new contestants…..
-Caster Semenya gets to keep her gold medal….
-Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony are facing a lawsuit from a woman who alleges she was injured by the couple’s dog…..
-Most critics say [...]
Havana ceremony honours del Toro
July 31st, 2009 |
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Oscar-winning actor Benicio del Toro has been presented with an award by the Cuban government in Havana, in recognition of his body of work.
The inaugural Tomas Gutierrez Alea prize was presented at a ceremony attended by US actors Robert Duvall, James Caan and Bill Murray.
Their visit is seen as a sign of warming Cuban-US relations.
Puerto Rican-born del Toro played revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara in two films out last year.
Named after prolific Cuban filmmaker Alea, the new award was voted for by the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba.
Del Toro – who won a best supporting actor Oscar for Traffic in 2001 – said it was "an honour" to receive the award and thanked Che director Steven Soderbergh.
The director’s two-part, four-and-a-half hour biopic on the Argentine revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro take power in Cuba in 1959, was a big hit on the island.
Murray sang songs to union members packed into a room behind the group’s main headquarters.
He then jokingly passed around a baseball cap to collect tips for the pianist who accompanied him.
"This is a show that will never be able to be repeated," del Toro said.
"Bill Murray singing, Robert Duvall with his flowers, James Caan sitting here next to me, with [Cuban actors] Jorge Perugorria and Mirta Ibarra.
"It will stay in history forever."
Because of the long-standing US trade embargo against communist Cuba, Americans have been forbidden – with some exceptions – from visiting the island, which is 90 miles (145km) away from Key West, Florida.
Hollywood stars such as Robert Redford, Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Steven Spielberg have visited in the past but cultural exchanges slowed down because of restrictions imposed by former US President George W Bush.
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My space
July 25th, 2009 |
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The millionaire businessman shows us the home office where he turns into Goldfinger
When I’m in my chair I feel like Goldfinger or one of the other Bond villains. Under my desk there’s a secret switch on the right which can raise my monitor out of the top. I also have cats like Mini-Me in Austin Powers, but mine are two Persians called Coco and Bella (short for Tinkerbell); Coco was here first and gets very territorial of this area. She’s a very snooty cat.
My wife is an artist, and we’ve got quite a nice set-up. She paints in her studio to the left of this space. When I’m buying art with her, I tend not to negotiate. She’s very passionate about her field and says: “For God’s sake darling, artists need a living, too.”
When we first bought the house this room was my gym. I bought a treadmill and after three years I still hadn’t removed the Harrods price tag. I used to hang my jacket on the arms instead and I don’t think we ever actually turned it on.
We’ve lived here in St John’s Wood for 15 years now. We moved from Winchmore Hill, where we had a slightly larger house, because we needed to move closer to town so that my daughters, Hannah and Gemma, could go to City of London School for Girls. They are both now in their final years at university (they are only 11 months apart).
Hannah is quite interested in private equity, because she’s very financially astute. Gemma is more artistic. What tends to happen at the weekend is if I have bits and pieces to do, they will be in here on the sofas opposite my desk, doing their homework on their laptops.
My executive assistant shares my office at Hamilton Bradshaw in Mayfair, but I can normally do two or three meetings from here before I leave. I’m very protective of the rest of the house though. That’s strictly for family business only.
• The Real Deal: My Story, from Brick Lane to Dragons’ Den, by James Caan, is published by Virgin books at £18.99. Dragons’ Den is on Wednesdays at 9pm on BBC2.
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